Past Winners

Bryan Murray, baritone, is currently pursuing a Master of Musical Arts degree at Yale University. Bryan has just received an Artist Diploma from the Purchase College Conservatory of Music where he also received his Master’s in vocal performance. While at Purchase, Bryan has appeared as John Proctor in Robert Ward’s The Crucible, Count Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Demetrius in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Father in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. He has a Bachelor’s in Music from Stony Brook University where he also appeared as the Father, as well as the Consul in Pier Francesco Cavalli’s Eliogabalo, and ensemble work in Eliogabalo, Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail, and Sheila Silver’s The Wooden Sword.